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The word 'corp'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
corpOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus16.55324
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 36 11 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 47.4 4 2
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 2
NEC - North East Central 139.1 3 1
SEC - (South) East Central 20.5 8 4
WCE - West Central 32.2 7 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 26.2 2 2
LAL - General Central 13.4 10 4
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.8 2 2
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of corp in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
d ithe sheets like a bab or a corp, sleepan yet whan sheu poors on page 101

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
le room windaes inno a sky, a corp that wis drained o bluid, nae
grat fin he saw his faither's corp. His fowk war gey comeat that
2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
ausages, bit intimmers frae a corp bein dissected in the toun's
matchin. Organs liftit frae a corp warna near as guid as eens ta
abwe, they fand the mummifeed corp o a dauncer riggit oot like t
ssin. The verra neist day her corp wis fand bi a rice fermer, ly
4 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Three Cannels, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
locally that she could tak a corp back tae life an hae it danci
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Stones That Turned, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
at hid been there tae pey the corp last respects hid left, the g
n an the bottom opened an the corp fell oot. The box wiz removed
2 matches

Irvine, Owen Eldritch Story, (The Gaudie 2018) Doric - Banff, weans
eth on the back o his neck. A corp like wraith arose fae the gru
ng the police found a mangilt corp doon by the auld McDougal hoo
2 matches

Aberdeen

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 84 - The Ferlie, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Doric, prose
a missin person here ... or a corp?' on page 80

3 matches

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 83 - Dunnottar, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
on – the speerit leaves the corp an siks its real hame in the
1 matches

General Northern

Johnston, Mary Lallans 83 - Chief wi Een Anither, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
t. ere's nae a fite hair on's corp. An aat comes aboot eence ilk on page 84

1 matches

McClure, Derrick J. Throwe the Keekin-Gless an Fit Ailice Funn There, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012559) Doric, prose
here a Snap-draigon-flee. The corp o't's a cloutie dumplin, the on page 42
fangs o breid an butter, the corp's a crust, an the heid's a kn on page 43

2 matches

North East Central

Heather, Alistair The Body Snatchers, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Angus, blog
gie the local university the corp o some puir craitur that’d
ily didnae claim them. But ae corp ilka twal month wisnae gaunâ€
a. Gin naebody wad gie them a corp, they’d hae tae gang oot an
3 matches

(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
come greetin ower your braken corp on page 39
wis mair virr in his face an corp ilka time I saw him; hou he a on page 76

2 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Lallans 67 - Clash fae Cauld Hill, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
Corp buskit in blank-pattern claes on page 39

1 matches

Hubbard, Tom Minoritie Status, (Tapsalteerie 2017) Central - Kirkcaldy, poetry
Ilka cauld steirless corp is raiped ti pieces on page 27

1 matches

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 62 - The Wee Tailor in the Haunted Kirkyaird, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, weans
“Dae ye see this corp, wee tailor, wi nae flesh nor
stracht for him: heid, airms, corp, legs an aa! Sae, he wis up a
2 matches

Holton, Brian Lallans 71 - O Niver ti Dree Corruption Mair, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
Somebodie’s got ti see the corp up the valley ti the buryin â
tor ti look at the puir cauld corp laid out there in its kistie
2 matches

West Central

Neill, Willie Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern, poetry
First Keek At A Corp on page 135

3 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
n its neb, nae doubt frae his corp. Efter sum mair sik ongauns, on page 137
deid an his mither's corp is yirdit, but he leives, for on page 140

3 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 75 - Review - The Shorter fiction, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
a wumman wi a gash, creiminal corp’s gizz, as ill-faured as oc
1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
ye dae aboot reportin a deid corp tae the authorities aroon her
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
lichtit on the white face an corp o puir Jennet laid oot on the on page 29

1 matches

Gilliland, Sam Lallans 74 - Thof nae a rigmarie hae I, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
The Douglas corp is cowpit intae foreign syle,
1 matches

General Central

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
git Ragnar oot o the oit, his corp wis gross, reikin putrid wi v on page 14

4 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Nae corp hauds knife upon his craig ta on page 32
Ruckles in the frozent javell corp. on page 34
Corp-cauld on a leck o stane, on page 80

4 matches

McClure, Derrick J. Lallans 73 - The Pynes o Luve, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
An aathin ither o her corp war steel, on page 42

1 matches

Sprott, Gavin Lallans 73 - Monument, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
Yit na, his stinkin corp on page 101

1 matches

South East (Borders)

Purves, David Lallans 59 - Five Poems frae the Chinese o Po Chu-I, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
ouch wi the saul o a man whas corp turnt ti stour in anither war
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Watt, George T. Lallans 82 - Caul Stane, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
the corp o the caul deceased. on page 24

1 matches

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
yer creeshie corp Ah noo behaud on page 69

1 matches

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